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John Pascoe

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John Pascoe

The amateur climbers of the 1930s were strongly represented in Canterbury, where they pioneered climbs in the Waimakiriri and Rakaia river catchments. John Pascoe, posing in this self-portrait taken after a trip up the Adams valley in 1936, became their chronicler, photographer and publicist.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, John Dobrée Pascoe Collection (PAColl-0783)

Reference: 1/2-058791; F

by John Dobrée Pascoe

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John Wilson, Mountaineering – The age of the amateur, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/10497/john-pascoe (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by John Wilson, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 February 2017.